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Delight in da Vinci
A book of paintings and drawings by the great artist is a real treasure, says CHRISTINE LINDEY
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Leonardo da Vinci 1475-1519: The Complete Paintings and Drawings
by Frank Zollner
Taschen, £50
THE next best thing to travelling the world to see Leonardo da Vinci’s original works is to pore over the plethora of beautifully reproduced, full-page illustrations of his paintings in Frank Zollner’s book.
Many are followed by several whole-page, full-bleed details which reveal the use of light, brushwork and subtle tonal changes.
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